Details
- Format:
- Score
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Musical forms:
- Prelude
- Artist:
- Woody Herman
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Main Key:
- D Minor
SKU: A0.1801079
By Woody Herman. By Joe Bishop. Arranged by George Kaplan. This edition: Interactive Download, pdf. Jazz. Score. Duration 156. George Kaplan #4kTsLPA6MIdoZ8NUw5ta0n. Published by George Kaplan (A0.1801079).Key: D minor.
“Blue Prelude” was composed and arranged by Joe Bishop, who sometimes played flugelhorn in the Isham Jones band in the early to mid-1930s. Bishop apparently completed the music for “Blue Prelude” in late 1932 or very early 1933. It was first recorded as an instrumental by the Casa Loma band on January 31, 1933 for Brunswick. Another performance was recorded by Isham Jones for Victor a little over two months later. These two recordings gained some popularity, though record sales in 1933, due to the Depression, were at a nadir. On June 13,1933, Bing Crosby recorded a version of “Blue Prelude” with a lyric written by Gordon Jenkins, who was then an arranger for the Jones band, and very soon would become a composer of memorable melodies, including Benny Goodman’s closing theme song, “Good-Bye.” Crosby’s recording, as so often was the case then, established “Blue Prelude” as a semi-standard.
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